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We also said that agreement should be negotiated with supermarket chains and the farming industry on a code of practice for sourcing and labelling local food items alongside those produced by organic and sustainable methods—again, that would facilitate consumer choice.
When the minister revises the Scottish schools code, I hope that he will accept that and examine class sizes carefully.In a sense, I agree with some members that the terms of the Executive amendment, on paper, sound a bit complacent.
We should aim to build on the Nolan reforms of the mid-1990s, which established an independent Commissioner for Public Appointments, a code of practice for ministerial appointments to public bodies and a monitoring process to ensure that appointments were made on merit after fair and open competition.
I do not think that the definition is set out in more depth than that. However, the code of conduct for councillors sets out exactly what interests they are required to register.
When we come to consider things further, we will be able to consider how we might include the principles in section 10 of the code of conduct.In the meantime, we should advise the commissioner of our views, working on the basis of the amended bullet point 6.
We hope that it will propose something along the lines of using the civil judicial network to exchange information and, perhaps, introducing codes of conduct. However, we cannot say until and unless the Commission proposes something.
That the Parliament agrees that the Justice 2 Committee be designated as lead committee in consideration of the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2003.
Rather than making piecemeal changes to the code, the committee agreed that a comprehensive review of the rules and the operation of the groups in practice would be a sensible way forward.